Solutions:
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Alternative Cleaning Supplies
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device
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Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
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Job Restructuring
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Odor Control
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Outgoing Voice Amplification - Telephone
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Policy Modification
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Touchless Faucets
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Voice Amplification
Alternative Cleaning Supplies
Traditional cleaning chemicals can trigger limitations for people with chemical sensitivities, fragrance sensitivities, migraine headaches, asthma and other respiratory impairments. To prevent limitations like respiratory difficulty, headaches, nausea, and tightening of the throat, investigate the use of alternative, non-toxic cleaning products, and fragrance-free cleaning products and practices.
Vendors and Products
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device
Communication aids provide communication access to people who have speech, hearing, or cognitive impairments. By typing words and sentences or touching pictures and symbols, an individual who has no speech or limited ability to speak can communicate through text, synthesized speech, or a prerecorded voice. Communication devices can be used to communicate in situations involving personal communication, groups, or the telephone.
Vendors and Products
Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
Disability awareness/etiquette trainings are designed to enhance employees’ awareness on the different ways that individuals with disabilities communicate, move about, tolerate changes and interactions, and view the world around them. This can help increase employees’ sense of confidence and tolerance when interacting with their coworkers who have disabilities. For more information on disability etiquette, please see JAN's A to Z: Disability Etiquette.
Vendors and Products
Campaign for Disability Employment
Institute on Employment and Disability
Life Quest Training & Consulting, LLC
National Organization on Disability
Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Virginia Commonwealth University WorkSupport
Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
VisAbility
Job Restructuring
Job restructuring is a form of reasonable accommodation which enables many qualified individuals with disabilities to perform jobs effectively. Job restructuring as a reasonable accommodation may involve reallocating or redistributing the marginal functions of a job. However, an employer is not required to reallocate essential functions of a job as a reasonable accommodation. Essential functions, by definition, are those that a qualified individual must perform, with or without an accommodation.
An employer may exchange marginal functions of a job that cannot be performed by a person with a disability for marginal job functions performed by one or more other employees.
Although an employer is not required to reallocate essential job functions, it may be a reasonable accommodation to modify the essential functions of a job by changing when or how they are done.
Odor Control
Products designed to mask and eliminate odors.
Vendors and Products
Outgoing Voice Amplification - Telephone
Products that amplify outgoing speech while using the telephone. Products may include telephones having adjustable outgoing voice amplification, or personal, portable voice amplifiers that work with a telephone.
Policy Modification
Common policy modification accommodations include modifications to leave, no-animal, dress code, and fragrance policies. For example, an attendance policy can be modified so that the absences related to seizures will not count against the employee.
Touchless Faucets
Faucets equipped with a proximity sensor that allows activation without touch.
Vendors and Products
- Angled Straight Bathroom Faucet, Angled Straight, Bathroom Sink Faucet, None Faucet Handle Type
- enMotion Hygiene Series, 1000mL and 1200mL, Automatic
- Gooseneck Bathroom Faucet, Gooseneck, Bathroom Sink Faucet, None Faucet Handle Type, 0.35 gpm
- Gooseneck Bathroom Faucet, Gooseneck, Bathroom Sink Faucet, None Faucet Handle Type, 1.50 gpm
- Low Arc Bathroom Faucet, Low Arc, Bathroom Sink Faucet, None Faucet Handle Type, 0.50 gpm
- Mid Arc Bathroom Faucet, Mid Arc, Bathroom Sink Faucet, None Faucet Handle Type, 1.50 gpm
- Equip by T&S 5EF-1D-DG-TMV Hands-Free Sensor Deck Mounted Faucet with Thermostatic Mixing Valve - 11 1/2" High Rigid Gooseneck Nozzle with 5 5/8" Spread
- Equip by T&S 5EF-1D-DS 4 1/2" Hands-Free Sensor Deck Mounted Cast Spout Faucet - ADA Compliant
- Rubbermaid 1782743 Milano Chrome 4" Center Set Deck Mounted Hands-Free Sensor Faucet with 3 3/4" Spout, Mixing Valve, and Supply Hoses
- T&S 5EF-2D-DS-WS Deck Mounted Hands-Free Sensor Faucet with 4" Centers, 5" Spout, 1.5 GPM Aerator, and Supply Lines
- T&S EC-3101 Wall Mounted ChekPoint Hands-Free Sensor Faucet with 4 1/8" Spread Gooseneck ADA Compliant
Voice Amplification
A voice amplifier might be used as an accommodation for an individual who has difficulty speaking loudly enough to be heard in noisy environments or who has a medical need to speak softly due to voice limitations. Amplifiers can be personal, portable, hand-held or body worn systems, or large area sound field or public address systems.